During my devotional time I sometimes like to close my eyes and give glory to Him as I marvel at His creation, at how sublime and elegant it all is. The Lagrangian of the Standard Model is so beautiful, how the motions of everything in all of physical creation from the largest galactic superclusters down to the smallest elementary particle are all controlled by just 4 simple forces based on 5 basic supersymmetries that can be expressed as a single set of coupled partial differential equations that can all fit on just a single sheet of paper. That is so amazing. Gloria in excelsis Deo!
What is particularly cool is that God created a creation that we can actually see. That is so wildly improbable in a randomly created universe. It is a big knock against hard atheism. The Hubble Ultra Deep Field is a dead giveaway that the universe was definitely designed and not random. Why? Because in a random universe the UDF photo ought to be all black or a gray fog. The matter density gradient has to be absolutely perfect to see large structures like galaxies at cosmological distances. It requires a super-finely tuned matter density gradient and alpha opacity function that is absolutely perfect, one that is more improbable than hitting the Powerball Jackpot lottery several times in a row.
God designed the universe very carefully because I think that He wants us to marvel at the sheer majesty of His creation and see what He hath wrought. He wants us to see it. And in doing so we cannot help but be forever humbled by it.
Reality can be not random and not created. We know there are “rules”, gravity, the speed of light, chemical reactions. So a photo that says things couldn’t be random just means the rules are followed, which is good news for our folks trying to figure out the rules, but doesn’t mean somebody followed a design.